growing and growing

Children are growing and growing, and not in a good sense. We talk about healthy eating but we forgetting about what to give our kids to drink with this healthy meal. Over the last 25 years the number of kids affected by obesity has tripled within the UK. The latest study, conducted by the NHS, revealed that more than 24% of children aged between 2 and 15 are overweight. That is pretty scary! Today, many parents are too busy to give their kids a proper meals, despite the fact that they try their best. However there is too many adverts that target kids, and you know that kids aren’t too aware that this is simply a marketing. Also in the era of computer games instead of jog for soccer on the school playground, more and more youngsters choose to play latest computer games a front of the PC.

However parents recognize the issue and found the alternative to an active lifestyle, mainly they decide to invest more money in healthy food. Yet here appears another problem. Most parents see healthy food as eating more of valuable food and seem to forget about drinks. Human body consist primarily of fluids, consequently, proper diet must be rich in various and most importantly sugar and artificial colours less drinks, most preferable fruit juices. Parents might want to change their children eating habits, but children itself also need to want this change. Substantial problem with kids is that they in principle do not like healthy stuff as commonly it is seen as not very tasty. British drink market offers very limited range of products, lacking with traditional juices made from seasonal fruits and vegetables. Other than ordinary fizzy drinks there are not many real fruit tastes widely available.

The great power of tea

With the half-term around the corner it is time to take our little ones for a fully deserved dinner to their favourite restaurant. Quick look on the back of the menu only to decide between coke/diet coke or apple and orange juice. Obviously, you can’t make a restaurant owner to enrich its soft drink menu, but why not treat your beloved ones at home?

People seem not to pay any attention to what they are drinking, why? Surely you don’t eat the same stuff everyday, so why would you limit yourself while choosing drink?

Within last few years everyone went crazy about healthy nutrition, spending considerable amount of time in a supermarket to select what’s best for him and his daily diet. But did you know that large percentage of your body is nothing but fluids?

It is cheap and healthy! Hot tea is really a wonderfully, old fashioned beverage that is low in both: cost and calories. Since traditional tea may be unpleasant for toddlers, even with drop of milk, they will certainly love fruit teas.

It will help keep fever down while suffering from a winter flu, but also quench the thirst on hot days like nothing else. But what about caffeine, is it not harmful for our kids? No, particularly if it doesn’t contain any, like most of our teas, just check out our range of organic teas such as Old Love or Sunny Power.

The list of diseases from which regular tea drinking can save your organism is very long. According to the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (BBC 2006) drinking tea will not only rehydrates your body, but can also protect you from heart diseases, certain types of cancer, high blood pressure or even from the common flu.

Despite appearances, this is a very important decision to make: whether to give them something that you wouldn’t even want to know what was it made of or something healthy, equally tasty and free of any harmful ingredients. I already have chosen, have you?

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